proxy-addr

What is proxy-addr?

The proxy-addr npm package is used to determine the IP address of the client connected to your web server through an HTTP proxy or a load balancer. It provides functionality to derive the client's IP address considering the X-Forwarded-For header and other well-known headers that can be used to indicate the actual client IP address when proxying HTTP requests.

What are proxy-addr's main functionalities?

Determine client IP address from request

This feature allows you to get the client's IP address from an incoming HTTP request object, considering the list of addresses specified by the 'trust' parameter.

const proxyaddr = require('proxy-addr');
const requestIp = proxyaddr(req, trust);

Compile trusted address list

This feature compiles an array of trusted addresses into a function, which can then be used to check if a given IP should be trusted.

const proxyaddr = require('proxy-addr');
const trust = proxyaddr.compile(['loopback', 'linklocal', 'uniquelocal']);

Check if an address is trusted

This feature checks if a given IP address is in the list of trusted addresses.

const proxyaddr = require('proxy-addr');
const trust = proxyaddr.compile('10.0.0.1');
const trusted = trust('10.0.0.1');

Other packages similar to proxy-addr

forwarded

The 'forwarded' npm package parses the X-Forwarded-For header and returns an array of the addresses. It is similar to proxy-addr but does not provide the same level of control over which addresses are considered trustworthy.

ipware

The 'ipware' npm package is designed to retrieve the user's IP address from the incoming request, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. It offers functionality similar to proxy-addr but with a different API and additional features for IP address detection.

README

proxy-addr

Determine address of proxied request

Install

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install proxy-addr

API

var proxyaddr = require('proxy-addr')

proxyaddr(req, trust)

Return the address of the request, using the given trust parameter.

The trust argument is a function that returns true if you trust the address, false if you don't. The closest untrusted address is returned.

proxyaddr(req, function (addr) { return addr === '127.0.0.1' })
proxyaddr(req, function (addr, i) { return i < 1 })

The trust arugment may also be a single IP address string or an array of trusted addresses, as plain IP addresses, CIDR-formatted strings, or IP/netmask strings.

proxyaddr(req, '127.0.0.1')
proxyaddr(req, ['127.0.0.0/8', '10.0.0.0/8'])
proxyaddr(req, ['127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0', '192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0'])

This module also supports IPv6. Your IPv6 addresses will be normalized automatically (i.e. fe80::00ed:1 equals fe80:0:0:0:0:0:ed:1).

proxyaddr(req, '::1')
proxyaddr(req, ['::1/128', 'fe80::/10'])

This module will automatically work with IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses as well to support node.js in IPv6-only mode. This means that you do not have to specify both ::ffff:a00:1 and 10.0.0.1.

As a convenience, this module also takes certain pre-defined names in addition to IP addresses, which expand into IP addresses:

proxyaddr(req, 'loopback')
proxyaddr(req, ['loopback', 'fc00:ac:1ab5:fff::1/64'])

• loopback: IPv4 and IPv6 loopback addresses (like ::1 and 127.0.0.1).
• linklocal: IPv4 and IPv6 link-local addresses (like fe80::1:1:1:1 and 169.254.0.1).
• uniquelocal: IPv4 private addresses and IPv6 unique-local addresses (like fc00:ac:1ab5:fff::1 and 192.168.0.1).

When trust is specified as a function, it will be called for each address to determine if it is a trusted address. The function is given two arguments: addr and i, where addr is a string of the address to check and i is a number that represents the distance from the socket address.

proxyaddr.all(req, [trust])

Return all the addresses of the request, optionally stopping at the first untrusted. This array is ordered from closest to furthest (i.e. arr[0] === req.connection.remoteAddress).

proxyaddr.all(req)

The optional trust argument takes the same arguments as trust does in proxyaddr(req, trust).

proxyaddr.all(req, 'loopback')

proxyaddr.compile(val)

Compiles argument val into a trust function. This function takes the same arguments as trust does in proxyaddr(req, trust) and returns a function suitable for proxyaddr(req, trust).

var trust = proxyaddr.compile('loopback')
var addr = proxyaddr(req, trust)

This function is meant to be optimized for use against every request. It is recommend to compile a trust function up-front for the trusted configuration and pass that to proxyaddr(req, trust) for each request.

Testing

$ npm test

Benchmarks

$ npm run-script bench

License

MIT